Justice Reform: A Conservative Legacy

And the current federal system creates failure … so much unnecessary recidivism. The current system is teaching inmates to become worse.

Rehabilitation for prisoners has been abysmal. 40% of those who leave end up arrested again.

Congress established the Colson Task Force (named after the former Nixon official who spent time in federal prison, then founded his own prison ministry) to address these problems and institute long-term prison reforms.

Some of their goals: increase transparency, enhance cooperation among different government entities, and improve public safety

Here are their recommendations:

Mandatory minimum sentences need to be revised, and judges need more discretion.

Government needs to promote alternatives to incarceration, including restitution.

States needs to create incentives for former prisoners to enroll in rehabilitation programs.

These reforms would ensure that prisons only house those who threaten public safety, and those who pay their debt to society return to normal life instead of a life of crime.

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Why are we doing this?

For decades, the Republican Party and other organizations have focused on the handful of swing districts they thought were “winnable” or favored establishment candidates.

Because of this strategy, the Republican candidate in hundreds of districts is just a name on a ballot, abandoned and unable to spread a message about common-sense policies to the people who need to hear about them most. Activists in those districts are left without a cause to rally around, and voters are left without a real choice.